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This final, shattering and most humiliating blow may well be regarded as the culmination in the long series of reverses suffered by these same relentless foes, marked by the repudiation of their preposterous claims following the Passing of Baha'u'llah, by the overwhelming majority of His followers, east and west; by the abject failure of `Abdu'l-Hamid, as well as the notorious Commission of Inquiry, to banish `Abdu'l-Baha to Fezzan; by the ignominious defeat of the Turkish Commander-in-Chief, the cruel, boastful Jamal Pasha, following his threat to crucify the Center of the Covenant outside the main gate of the fortress City of `Akka; by acquisition of the site for the construction of the Bab's Sepulcher; by the restitution of the keys to the Most Holy Tomb and the recognition by the British authorities of the right of the Baha'i world community to the custodianship of the Baha'i Shrines; by the establishment of the international Baha'i endowments on Mt. Carmel; by the formation of the Palestine branches of the Baha'i National Assemblies; by exhumation of the Brother and Mother of `Abdu'l-Baha and reburial in the neighborhood of the Bab's resting place; by the evacuation by these same adversaries of the Mansion of Bahji, after forty years' occupancy; by the demise, in distressing circumstances, of the archbreaker of the Covenant himself; by the ignominious flight of his henchmen on the eve of the disturbances which rocked the Holy Land in recent years; by the deaths with dramatic swiftness of this same lieutenant, his kindred and closest associates; by the intervention of the Israeli government in denying the competence of the civil courts to adjudicate the case brought by the remnant of these same Covenant-breakers and the subsequent authorization issued by the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs to demolish the ruined building close to the vicinity of Baha'u'llah's Tomb; finally, by the extinction of the life of the prime mover in the diabolical plans directed during the course of three decades against `Abdu'l-Baha .
(121:2)
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